The Sunday herald., 1887-01-30
THE CASUAL CYNlC.
Goes TO u Reception snd Makes Ms.

cNvcry.
Whatever may he said about the morals Of the
men and boys in this city, whether they he good or
bad, high low, there is no question about the resi-
OF the population. The women show uniform de.
praylty. total lack OF principle an unscrupulous
disregard for others, marx all Their actions con.
nded this opinion to friend. "Great Heavens
he exclaimed, ~ thought you reveted women; where
have you been to get such crazy cynicsm as thatgn
"To public reception said. His face changed
at once; he had been there. "Yes,"he said sadly,
"but YOU must admit they are hot like that any.
where else" WANTED to argue the case with him.
but he got away. l wanted to convince him that
mere Ia no virtue In lack Of opportunity to do evil.
wanted to convince him OF the gull OF moral turpl.
tude mad discovered: but he Is ftarried man, and
bis wife was there. saw her walk up past the line
where had been patiently progressing by inches
for an hour. She smiled as she went by and walked
straight up to the porch saw her standing on the
exterior OF the dense crowd there for minute saw
her make some smiling remark TO the policeman
there, then, when he turned his back to keen n
team OF pranclng horses from charging into
the swarm OF women, she plided past him and up
the steps had been there in line ever since
o'clock When nnally got inside, weary and
chilleu with standing, met her Just coming out.
she sad she had lovely time. She shook hands
with Mrs Clcveland then she went around In the
corridor and got n good look at her DRESS ana sa,
down for long time aud heard the band play, and
she guessed shc had better go now. suppose she
went home and boascd to her husband abou, her
sinartness, and that was why he didn't care to hear
my homily on the reception manners of women. 1
am glad went to the reception. II was very
tedious ami unpleasant. l endured martyrdom
standing an hour aud half In line aud then emery
ing, hatened and elongated but alive from the nal
squeeze at the steps. ! thought Mrs. Cleveland
looked tired but heroic, ana very pretty and sweet,
! ala not see her dress. They would not c, me
al land hxt th.,l La. st..
certainly was not worth all that trouble TO get n
passing glance at even such lovely young woman
as Mrs. Cleveland. But 1t was worth while TO dis.
cover that the public reception is the great public
ueinoraizer NO vile OF mine shall ever attend
one. l do not wish her to be exposed to such
temptations. l am afraid she might do IKE ali The
others. There are 80 few who have moral stamina
enough to stand and take their turn when
they see the unprlncipled and the unman.
nerly walk past to an easy victory. 1 saw
the triumph OF audacity and eTrontery over
patient endurance. l saw women beating police
man. Horrid spectacle. And every time one more
bold and adrolt than the others gded past the poor
oadgered man the multitude laughed and cheered
her, ana tried to emulate her, until the police had to
actually lay hands on them to keep them back. I
perceived that to keep any sort OF order and to have
Justice done to all 1t would he necessary to have n
policeman stationed every yard OF the way, and one
warranted obdurate to feminine smiles and wilcs a,
that Now what for? gang OF strikers7 A mob
OF school-boys going to a clrcus7 No, these have
some respect for each others rights Only for ladies'
dressed In their best, going on summer afternoon
10 make call! True, few men scattered here
and there were 30 much under the influence of their
female leaders that they adopted the same nefarous
methods TO get on. Fortunately for mankind, few
OF them fall INTO that crowd and that temptation,
but the mothers bring their children and instruc,
them IN public manners of the same school: how to
get ahead of Others the fine arts Of squeezing and
crowdiDg, the advantages OF .'cheek" In a crowd.
These are the useful points which the rising genera.
ton pick up at the public reception. on the whole,
In spite OF the discomfort and fatigue endured am
glad went, for see an opportunity to do some
missionary work without making journey TO any
OF the so-called heather countries.
am going to organize a crusade against the pub.
| lie reception. II cannot get that abolished I will
try at least to prevail upon women who go to them
| to take their eryday manners and use them.
| Attacks Fragile Theory and Routs II.
1t Is high time that old notion OF the unhcalthfu
ness of climbing stairs were exploded. There is a
popular idea that 1t is ruinous to the health par.
ticulatly OF women, to go up and down stairs. II de-
serves 10 be releglted to that limbo where the anti
ate supper theory has gone, and all the other old
| bugaboos and scarecrows Of hygiene are fast going
the most allacous OF all and get the most prev
alent. You meet women every day in the full
|
to go up so many stairs, aud really wonder how
they live. They really do live in expectation of
| some physical breakdown from constantly going up
stairs, and are astonished that 1t does not come
sooner. "Oh don't these steps almost kW you ~
says the sympathizng occupant OF a fourtll.foor
| room to another on the NTH "Indeed, | wonder /
don't die, Is the reply.
| have friend living in small Western city who
| tells me with eXultatlon how he has planned and
built'a house all on one floor. 81 don't want my
| wife an old broken-down woman before she s forty
| from climbing stairs" "My misguided friend" !
| say, "your wife will probably die OF malaria before
| forty, for no room on The ground floor Is ht for
| sleepiDg-room. You will then have the pleasure OF
seeking a second dwife, and you will probably take
woman who has lived in a six story house, with her
room at the top. Only In such will you ind The phy-
| sique which you much admire
| The truth Is that rooms are not only brighter.
pleasanter, and In purer atmosphere two or three
stories from the ground but the necessary exercise
| to get 10 them Is the very thing one needs for
| health. Exercise needs no defense. Every one adj
mts that Is necessary to health even II they don't
practice 1t, but while 1t Is considered healthfu to
walk, TO dance, TO skate, TO row, to fence TO swing
ones weight about In all sorts OF artificial gyninas
tics, II Is still thought Injurious to walk up stairs
In fact, 1t IL OF the best forms Of exercise and
| many woman who grumbes at climbing stairs
ami "wonders how she stands It, owes her health
|
| or buy some costly mechanical device for develop
| ing muscle, while they overlook more el,cacous
exercise and bewai their lot II their lack OF n0ney
compels them to climb an extra night of stairs q
| day.
l know a charming girl of eighteen who Ii the
| picture OF eXubeTant health. Her room IL on the
sixth oor, and she mounts i've lights of stairs hall
| dozen times q day with perfect ease. She even
| runs up-a practice think rather extreme she
| has done 1t no much that she never gets wlndcd
| She can walk to Alexandria. She can jump over
series OF paror chairs without dlsarranging her tour.
| nure or her bangs. As she takes no systematic ex-
ercise and pays no attention orules OF health con
slider her splendid physical condition largely the re-
suit Of the unconscious training she has given her
| sell In going up stairs. "Ah," says the confirmed
thcorlst, "what can you tell by girl of eighteen?
| AT twenty-five she will he a wreck. | tell you
women can't stand It," But look at this lady; she
lives In the same house; she goes constantly up
and down stairs; she looks perhaps i've years older
than my active little friend. Her health IL perfect
| 1t ID the girls mother What have the dangers OF
star-climbng done for her? And the grandmother
is living In the same house in admirable health, and
| az active as any woman can well he. ] challenge
any one to produce person whose health has been
really Injured by going up stairs. That the notion
Of Its being unhcathful has caused a great many
people to fancy themselves injured by It admit
but deny that 1t Is really injurious. ON the Other
| manu-, properly dohe, IL IL positively benencaI.
| say to all, "Cllmb stairs as much az you can
Don't go painting and laboring up, bewailiDg youi
lot, but hold your chin up and your body erect, and
| walk up with dignity and yet with speed. Then as
sert, II you can, that you have not brought all the
muscles into heathful action, and deepened your
respiration, and made your blood circulate more
freely. Learn to carry your weight up stairs with
out effort and you Will carry the weight OF increas
ing years also with ease.n
|
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